RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 967, 26 May 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT.

THIS DAY. f ( j ( ( " rann/.Jaequcletti/eharge ijwiyli. drunk"and disorderly on i atur'day.m #yhe-stfefefc£ rfrofe r fiHed Si l ' : " : ! Isabella Johnston, alßft Morrison, was l cTOfg r 3d ,l firAfr liiffng no lawful visible The case wis adjournbS £ui to-morrow. jn<„wiiiS' James Adams, - for being drunk aha .disorderly in Thames-streeyesterday m6Tning, '(vas -6n6d 9sP ~\/\ ! ojifl?/ f>00 ( 0 Robert Keenan, for' Mowing two horses to~6e at large, was fined 9,j ; Ma# mMw;.4 n ,?i 1101 j e ' 43: Vic fe Johns/one horse, 4s. ~ . •i '•{<) u y . KinJplvn,JWfiaPt,TAs charged vyjJlfOjUt a license, in tl e boarding-house, at the corner of Wansbeck . andlcoa-streeta, .t© one J am s^'iSpence'?'* 7 *' 1 ) was charged : ;W.cii similar offence on the 20th IV fay. ""'Lfouis StftaA't'>S£ntl"Margarit .§t.uart, of, f the Clarendon ' in answer to a Slmilair'cMrgd, ' ' !T®lr. O'Meagher proaecut jd' , *in'-'all> di' the cases, and stated that ihe whdle"«f' the - cases were of a sin Spence and his wife went into the houses drinks, and on-'therif leaying asked fori a'-ifelwlling 1 ® worth of brandy in a each case they got and took ,ip geant of police. The ca^g. u }rere f re-, manded till to-morrow morning, the'de-. fendants in each instance pleading gu!lty.' Jessie Davies, was charged witfr selling two glasses of brandy and jene bottle of beer on the 19th inst. to Spence and his wife, in a houf?je known as Boyland's Boardingrhouse, contrary to the Licensing Ordinance: u .' rf ' Defendant pleaded not Mr- O'Meagher prosecuted, ana Mr, Newton appeared for the defence. James Spence deposed ; He resided at Inverness Boarding-house. He knew the defendant, and remembered seeing her on

- company with his wife rhe ;wen# into- the house and-asked for two glasses of brandy. were supplied with the brandy, the house witness ag}tec{ f worth she him \ are itsib Sergeant "vi j ST Cross-examined by Mr. Newton : "Witness said he had been in defendant's house about a fortnight ago. He in company with his wife had called at two other present "when they re c e ivecl^Cffe «ml tiibsre_^as-alsp on a sofa. "Witness would positively s'fSteit 'Was ' ftravidy he had. He was perfectly .sober .at the time. He did not know what remu'nei'ationire"WQUldrec6ivefoxrintQim&>gii Al thought he would take up tiiis. Her ditr not recollect Joeing s f aid about the moiiey he had paid For the' drinks.' ' Defendant! did. not says-chafe shei would not takje the "P™# '> n r r, .x I Sergeant Beatty was called gaud deposedtthai the*:'bpA% produced'contained and lie received it from Ijhe l&?ft witness"&'^elnigii£ ! bf s tft&'l9th inpf. Anne cperifcfe,"' wife of James spenc&; ; jdejjosed that she knew defendant bjy<sigM.. She had seen Tier r o'ri'the'l!)th iifSt.[ .Witr, 'ridSs'rfißi'lier'lllisbaad -went,into the house together-, ;i,Wjd 1 _ asked fo f r two drinks. Defendant" supplied thcin"\f¥El¥ the' di'infi !/ fif6t] ! i h a' 'bottle?! tUkoti frifevaf cujsbyrtl/ ' if Wst'nefeKSa\Y her liusUmd pay ;for:feflri«to. n .; J was adiburned till to-tnftifrqiV riJ sitting.] t m 1...U-.1... nJ. / ' ""